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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Just the facts, ma'am. The birthday facts.

Today is MFD's birthday. We do birthdays big in our house. Not usually gift-wise, but experience-wise. And certainly do whatever the hell you want-wise. I'm taking a page out of Kristin's book and giving you some MFD facts. You read the mundane details of my life, why not share some details of his? Aside from what you get monthly in Shit MFD Said, of course.

1. He is a huge Star Wars geek. His favorite of the movies is Empire Strikes Back and his favorite character is Han Solo. His favorite merchandise is the eleventy billion t-shirts, vintage toys, and wall art we own.
2. He would rather watch the sunset than the sunrise.
3. His idea of a perfect pizza is a plain pizza from Brother's.
4. The majority of his free time is spent watching YouTube videos he thinks are funny.
5. Other current favorite pastime: fishing.

6. When he was little, he wanted to be an actor.
7. He takes his coffee with skim milk and one Splenda.
8. If he could have personally witnessed anything in history, he would've liked to see the MLK I Have a Dream Speech, the surrender of Robert E. Lee, and Jesus perform the loaves and the fishes miracle.
9. Lady celebrities he loves: Meryl Streep, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler (Shit MFD Said note: "They're the same. Put them together."), Sofia Vergara, Taylor Swift (Shit MFD Said note: "I can't believe I'm saying this. I used to hate her, especially when she sang with Stevie Nicks and butchered it. I think she was probably nervous. But I like how she's cool with her fans and I like her and I'm not ashamed to say it.), Shirley MacLaine
10. He has a vision board and there's only one thing left to achieve on the current one.
11. Movies that always make him laugh: Airplane, Borat
12. The political issue that most concerns him is China. China China China China China. (Shit MFD Said note: put down that I said that). Education, corporate accountability and Citizens United being repealed.
13. He makes friends wherever he goes. I call him the Mayor.
14. He really does want to be a Mayor one day.
15. He is a musician and he loves music. His favorite bands are Foo Fighters, Beatles, Fleetwood Mac. Favorite singers include Billy Joel, Harry Connick Jr., Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Amy Winehouse.
16. He is a big picture, big idea person.
17. In response to me saying tell me something random: "I need a haircut."
18. His favorite kind of cake is Carvel Ice Cream Cake and his favorite homemade cake is chocolate with vanilla icing.
19. He is 38 today.

1. She loves to call people sunshine and is typically a ray of sunshine herself. See above.
2. Debbie is pretty much up for anything. We've done a ton of fun things together and we're not nearly finished.
3. She is always very well put together - clothes, accessories, hair, makeup - always on point.
4. We share a love of potty humor and laugh loudly and long about ridiculous, immature things.
5. She makes beautiful jewelry.
6. She also makes the best deviled eggs.
7. She knows her shit - I learned a lot from her when she was my boss. We no longer work together but she remains a part of my family.
8. Her cats are named Kramer and Elaine.
9. She makes me laugh really hard when she talks in accents.
10. MFD's contribution: "She likes to say listen up."

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Happy birthday to these September 1 babies, as well as the May brothers and our young friend Griffin! Lots of September 1 going on in our circles.

46 comments:

My guy would say Sofia Vergara as well. My guy isn't really into having a celebrity love, but if he could have one...it would be her. The three events in #8 would all be pretty impressive events to witness. I have yet to meet a Star Wars geek that doesn't love Han Solo. If they say they don't, I swear they are not telling the truth.

Happy Birthday MFD!! My husband lurves Star Wars as well. Currently, most of his "decor" (and I use that term loosely) is confined to the man cave but it's starting to eek out into the rest of the house. Sigh.

2 of my favorite people in the universe. Awesome that Mike Doyle has a vision board. Totally awesome. This is an excellent idea for a birthday tribute. I had no idea on some of these. I love the Foo Fighters! #thatherosong. Love this post to infinity and beyond. God and Goddess speed to both of these September 1st babies! Love, Your Momma

Happy birthday MFD!! KC loves to watch youtube videos as well. More often than not, I'm reading and he's youtube watching. how awesome he only has one thing left on his vision board, and i hope he gets to be mayor one day!I used to love calling people sunshine. then one day someone called me moonbeam in response and i was like, um.... lol.

Happy birthday to MFD and Debbie! I rented and watched all 3 classic Star Wars movies this last weekend, and Solo is still my favorite character too, although Return of the Jedi is my favorite movie (because Ewoks, haha). Give me young Harrison Ford all day long though please!

Happy birthday MFD & Debbie! Hopefully they've both had great days. Nowt wrong with being a Star Wars fan, good on you for dealing with the memorabilia though! Loving all the ocean themed photos too :)

i can appreciate #4, since my hubs is always trying to show me youtube clips that he THINKS are funny 99% of the time i find them super stupid however maybe you'll both appreciate "english bulldog diesel - the box lover" if you haven't seen it already. happy birthdays all around!!

Debbie is the best and I would not have known about your amazing blog without her in my life. Happy Birthday Sunshine!! and Happy Birthday to MFD! Tell him I met Harry Connick Jr once, he's super tall and his wife is super hot! In high school I worked at a toy store and they came shopping there once with their kids. They were both very nice.

Your husband sounds like an all-around good guy! I can't say that about all the husbands I meet. And your ex-boss sounds awesome, a great mentor. It's awesome when coworkers can become friends (most of the time!).

I would much rather watch the sunset than sunrise too. The picture of him in the back of the canoe makes me lol. I've seen my boyfriend do that and the front end is like out of the water. Our canoe is like 18 feet long so it just looks hilarious.

Happy birthday to your people!! One thing I love about this type of post is seeing how well people know their SOs and how even the littlest things about them become part of your "story" together. So sweet. Cheers MFD!

Foo Fighters AND Fleetwood Mac?! I just saw them both this year! I'm with him on Star Wars, big idea/picture ideology, musician-ing (alto sax all the way- woohoo!), and Carvel ice cream cake... there really is nothing better. You guys seem to balance each other out really well. And he even commented! Happy birthday Mayor/MFD!

I'm glad you decided to do this! These are always such fun posts to read because you're right: we always get to hear all about the blogger but not as much about the important people the blogger's life.

Happy very late Birthday to MFD!! and to Debbie! This was such a fun post! I'm pretty sure P would say something similar, to "I need a haircut" as a random comment, that or a pirate joke. Hope you guys are having THE BEST trip!!!